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The number of drug deaths has been rising in Finland since 2015

A 'matter of time'

Fears for the future as drug deaths among young Finns soar

Slovak Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova has sparked protests by sacking the heads of top cultural institutions

Serial dismissals

Nationalist minister tests Slovak culture, LGBT limits

Kevin Johnson wants to relaunch his career from Russia, where he has become a cheerleader for Vladimir Putin

Career relaunch

Kevin Johnson: US boxer fighting for Putin's Russia

Mohammed Naeem stands with his children amid the rubble of his Kabul home, due for demolition under a redevelopment plan by Taliban authorities

Urban development

Vulnerable Afghans struggle as Taliban rebuild Kabul roads

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva complained of headaches, and an MRI scan found an intracranial hemorrhage

Lula alert, 'progressed well' since intracranial surgery

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Thursday in Sydney

Bolstering ties

Australia to spend $385 mn on PNG rugby league team with eye on China

Islamist-led rebels launched a lightening offensive last month, seizing the Syrian capital Damascus after just 11 days, following years of civil war

No discrimination

New Syria PM says will 'guarantee' all religious groups' rights

Francis will give two speeches in Corsica's capital Ajaccio and preside over a mass at the Casone open-air

Pope to champion popular Catholic traditions in Corsica

The UN General Assembly often finds itself taking up measures that cannot get through the Security Council due to political concerns

Symbolic gesture

UN General Assembly calls for 'unconditional' Gaza ceasefire

A woman cries after armed gangs shot her husband dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Kidnappings reported

Nine killed in Haiti in latest gang attack

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud flew in at the request of his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

'Historic agreement'

Turkey says Ethiopia, Somalia reach compromise deal to end feud

Lula hosted leaders of the G20 group of nations in November

Follow-up surgery

Lula to undergo new operation to 'minimize' cranial bleeding risk

The late Afghan minister for refugees Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani often appeared in public with an automatic weapon in his hand

Afghan refugees minister killed by suicide blast

Family members search morgues for their loved ones who vanished after being detained by Syrian authorities

A foreboding mission

Relatives of Syria's disappeared seek closure in Damascus morgues

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in the Tabarre commune in Port-au-Prince will be reopened, the group says

'Immense' medical needs

MSF resumes some activities in Haiti's capital

Bidzina Ivanishvili is seen as pulling the strings despite not holding office

Condemning 'intimidation'

Macron urges release of Georgia protesters in Ivanishvili talks: Elysee

Macron is under huge pressure to cobble together a broad alliance and form a government

The clock is ticking

France's Macron races to choose new PM

Emergency services said the Russian strike hit a private medical facility

Intensifying attacks

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia strike toll rises to 8, rescue operation underway

Abd-Al-Rahman faces multiple charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Searing accusations

Sudan militia chief 'enthusiastically' committed war crimes: prosecutor

South Korean police have raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who last week declared a short-lived martial law

Defence minister on suicide watch

South Korean police blocked from raid on president's office

A Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet takes off in Hsinchu on Tuesday

Asserting dominance

Taiwan says 'troublemaker' China expands military drills around island

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte is being investigated over an alleged plot to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos

Comments misinterpreted?

Duterte parties as Philippines probes her alleged plot to kill Marcos

A tourist poses for a picture at a scenic spot called 68 Nautical Miles on Pingtan island, the closest point in China to Taiwan's main island

Longstanding aspirations

Hopes for 'reunification' a fact of life on China's window to Taiwan

A forensics police officer stands in front of the wall where anti-Israel graffiti has been removed in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra

Perpetrators on the run

Vandals paint anti-Israel graffiti, burn car in Sydney

Abd-Al-Rahman faces multiple charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Rape, murder, torture

ICC to wrap up war crimes trial of feared Sudan militia chief

A Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet prepares to land at an Air Force base in Hsinchu

Maritime mobilisation

Taiwan says detects 53 Chinese military aircraft, 19 ships near island

Luigi Mangione was arrested following a tip from a McDonald's worker in Pennsylvania

NY gunman had manifesto railing against health insurance

A boy carries an unexploded rocket propelled grenade at the site of an Israeli strike that weapons belonging to Syrian government forces

'Most important military sites'

New Syria PM calls for 'stability and calm'

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